Re: [Qemu-devel] Using load_elf

2012-04-04 Thread Brian Vandenberg
> ROM images are in form of binary blobs with no location information, > they must be loaded to a known address. For boot ROMs, the address > range would cover CPU hard reset entry vector. So, for a BIOS or boot ROM that has been stripped, the board needs to be hard-coded to not just load the imag

Re: [Qemu-devel] Using load_elf

2012-04-04 Thread Blue Swirl
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 22:57, Brian Vandenberg wrote: >  I'm attempting to familiarize myself with the APIs used to add > support for boards in qemu, and I have a few questions. > > * How does using load_elf differ from load_image_targphys? > >  As an example, many of the boards I've looked at hav

[Qemu-devel] Using load_elf

2012-04-03 Thread Brian Vandenberg
I'm attempting to familiarize myself with the APIs used to add support for boards in qemu, and I have a few questions. * How does using load_elf differ from load_image_targphys? As an example, many of the boards I've looked at have a hard-coded entrypoint. In mpc8455, it looks as though it d